I can get into enough trouble without people squeezing imaginary insults out of my words.
But you need something to keep you from challenging every merchant's son who insults your boots.
This can range from verbal banter, including insults, jokes and comments with sexual or racist undertones, to unwelcome physical abuse.
The " patriot " party did their utmost to curtail his prerogatives, and harass him with petty insults, and at last the Prussian king was obliged to interfere to save his niece, who was even more un- of popular than her weak husband, from being driven from the country.
Arrested with Robespierre and Saint-Just, his colleagues in the triumvirate of the Terror, and subjected to indescribable sufferings and insults, he was taken to the scaffold on the same cart with Robespierre on the 28th of July 1794 (loth Thermidor).
